Video game travel always has that weird feel to it, too. For instance, in the Morrowind / Oblivion / Skyrim, you can run from one city to another in roughly a minute. Even if we very generously assume you’re running at ~15 MPH (which would be crazy fast for any distance), that would put them about a quarter mile apart. At more realistic speeds, 1/8 or so.

I’d be more concerned if someone isn’t worried about the future, to be honest.

It’s most likely the one you’re given each time you go for a physical (or at least, we are where I live) - it’s more like:

In the past week, how often have you…

• Worried about the future
• Felt that you can’t do anything right
• Had trouble focusing on common tasks
• Felt hopeless or depressed
• …etc

with options like “Never”, “Rarely”, “Most days”, “Almost all of the time”

“No Diggity.” “Is that your final answer?” “No doubt.”

Seriously, my first thought was, “Why isn’t this a thing?”

My wife and I both work; she makes about 150% of what I do. This ‘woman bad lol’ rhetoric should just stick to Reddit or 4chan.

An even better option is Ventoy - You just drop the raw .isos onto the drive and it gives you all of them as options in a bootloader. Can put all of your distros on one drive (and even windows isos if you really need to for some reason).

The distinction is that NIMBYs only object to the infrastructure when it’s in their back yard. I think the majority of people object to these data centers anywhere, but only have voting power to directly oppose them in their back yards, so that’s where their effort is spent. I haven’t seen anyone say “I definitely want another massive datacenter to go up, just not here.”

Another article confirmed it was payment processors again. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Wow, I’m very below average for my age bracket; I feel much better about my weight now! Thanks, Gemini!

I really have no idea, and this would probably be jurisdiction dependent anyway.

They do allow things like food, which it seems would come with more liability anyway, if they can be held liable for kickstarted things.

It sounds like it’s just insertable toys, so it might be a liability thing if they’re afraid people are selling unsafe toys? Who knows. That’s a really weird distinction and definitely one that payment processors don’t make.

I loved Beakman’s World. It was a more wacky version of Bill Nye.

I guess I’m suggesting that if you got kids used to using Linux, they’d be more likely to keep using Linux after graduating, on their personal computers. Nobody’s using ChromeOS for anything serious.

Imagine the technological shift we could see if they were similarly powered linux laptops vs. Chromebooks. Get kids used to linux in school and I bet we’d start seeing Windows losing much more significant market share.

And here I expected that link to lead to a certain highly controversial Penny Arcade comic.

It’s great because A) his parents presumably named him that knowing full well what they were doing and B) He could have chosen to go by Will, William, or Bill, but actively chose to use Willie professionally.

Yeah, that’s a lot less fun to imagine. :(

The thing about US exceptionalism is, it was fed to us all throughout grade school and even before. We had to recite the pledge of allegiance every day, for fuck’s sake. It’s something that has to be unlearned now, and a lot of folks just don’t want to, or don’t care to, or don’t even realize that it was a load of bullshit. Honestly the internet is probably the only exposure to other cultures most of us have (that’s certainly true for me), so folks who aren’t active in internet spaces other than, like, Facebook and whatnot might never have talked to anyone from another country in their whole lives.

The ruined alliteration is mildly annoying to me!

Beans, bacon, booze and… blubber?